By Park Griffin on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 03:54 pm:

There had been an extensive discussion about prolotherapy on the prolo.net website. Something strange has happened. The board went down at he end of March.
There is not one post for the month of April. However, I discovered that the board is still up! If anyone is interested in posting to this forum again type the following
as the address: http://209.185.58.76/bbs/ There is a wealth of information on this forum regarding prolotherapy! This is a great forum too!!! Let's keep both going!!!

By Rich Carroll on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 03:55 pm:

I have been trying to get back to this board for the longest time. With the new address you gave I can finally pull up the board but cannot read the messages- maybe
we ahve to start a new one. I have had a couple of prolo treatments w/ limited results but am thinking of moving to Chicago to go see Dr. Hauser - author of "Prolo
Your Pain Away"

By Cheri on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 03:55 pm:

Hi, We tried to reach the prolo site according to all of your instructions, including your ammendments to no avail. I'd really like to try to get onto some of these
postings as I have a "consult" visit with a prolotherapist on Monday May 22, I hope you get this and would respond asap, Thanks a lot, Cheri

By Park Griffin on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 03:56 pm:

I posted the original message. After entering the prolo message board, using the IP address link as I stated in my original post, I could not click on any of the
messages and bring them up. Here's how you have to do it. View the properties of any of the message links that you would like to view. You should find in the URL
statement something that ends like "read=1607". If this is the post you would like to read, enter this line in your address bar then press enter:
http://209.185.58.76/index.cgi?read=1607/ *** Make sure to end the string with /. Each post will have a different number after "read=

By Cheri on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 03:56 pm:

I tried accessing the prolo forum using your instructions but I keep getting the message "cannot access server". Is this site up and running still? Would really like to
know.
Thanks,
Cheri

By Park Griffin on Monday, June 12, 2000 - 08:22 am:

Rich, I talked to Terry Rapp (He is the moderator of the prolo.net discussion board) He told me that they were in the process of upgrading the server and the board should be up within 30 days. The server company did not "bring down" the site. They just "unlisted" the DNS to IP address look-up link. The easiest way to have full access to the site is to find over the internet the freeware program "freenet99". It is a good tool to have. The main function of the program is to store the DNS to IP address look-up table on your local computer. When you type in an address in your browser IE: 'www.anysite.com' the IP address is resolved by your ISP's server (this takes more time than if the table is on your local computer). I really don't use the program for much, but it is great for this: What I did after downloading the program was to delete all the DNS-IP table listings in it. The reason I did this is because I wanted the table to be only for sites that I have problems getting on to. What you can do is this: Download the program and make a manual entry for www.prolo.net and enter the IP address that I posted on my previous posting. The program is pretty easy to use. Once you set-up 'www.prolo.net' you won't have to do any "fancy foot work to browse the site" you will be able to read and post messages as before. Even if you decide to wait a month and see what happens, I recommend to any web surfer to download 'freenet99', it's a great internet tool. Also, if you have e-mail addresses for others who have used the prolo.net site pass the word. Terry wasn't real assuring over the phone about the 30 day time frame. My hope is if we can show interest in the forum, they'll get it back up for everyone to use.

By Paul on Friday, June 16, 2000 - 01:34 am:

Re: Dr. Hauser in Chicago

I understand that Dr. Russ Hauser has written several books. However, has anyone on the forum received and benefitted from his prolotherapy treatments? Please let me know before I shell out $500 for treatments. Thanks.

By Park Griffin on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 04:42 am:

I made a mistake about the name of the free about the free program to help in reading the messages on the www.prolo.net website. The program name is actually "fastnet99" not "freenet99" as I mentioned before. Sorry for any confusion. ZDnet is a good source to download this program.

By Hannah on Friday, August 04, 2000 - 11:23 pm:

Hi I have just found this board ,and for me it is very exciting. I have hypermobility of the SI joint,other joints are also hypermobile, but the problem is in the SI joint .Over the last nine years I have had 40 injections,and I seem to need 1 about every 6 months.For they have made the difference between having no quality of life and being in bed all the time ,to having some times when I am able to have a life.The pain i s still with me but I can live with it,I also have to be aware of not pushing my self and doing too much, which is frustrating,but for me they have given me my life back.

By Hannah on Friday, August 04, 2000 - 11:38 pm:

Hi I have just found this board ,and for me it is very exciting. I have hypermobility of the SI joint,other joints are also hypermobile, but the problem is in the SI joint .Over the last nine years I have had 40 injections,and I now seem to need 1 about every 6 months.For me they have made the difference between having no quality of life and being in bed most of the time ,to having some times when I am able to have some periods of being able to do things.The pain is still with me but I can live with it,I also have to be aware of not pushing my self and doing too much, which is frustrating,but for me they have given me my life back.

By jim on Friday, September 29, 2000 - 05:02 pm:

I dont; know how reliable prolo is i talked to dr L.cohen ( if i can remember ) who said
it would do nothing foe peole like me who have winging

since then i went to dr hauser 4 times i had to pay for it privately and fly over to get it too
and it did help but it also gave me bad gasritis and then pn

i am now thinking about getting surgery

i was diagnosed as having multidirectional shoudler instability due to ligament laxity

which the dr suspects might be due to a SLAP lesion

i don't knwo if any one has had surgery here or
any of my problems but i'd be interestedto hear

the one other thing about hauser is the fact you
you end up paying $70 for vitamins ete he advises you to buy to hepl the prolo